The Independence of the United States is considered the first American Revolution (the second was the Civil War). It was a landmark in the Old Regime crisis because it broke the unity of the colonial system.
The thirteen American colonies were formed from the seventeenth century. In the late eighteenth century, there were 680 000 inhabitants in the north, or New England: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connecticut; 530 000 in the center: Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware; and 980,000 in the South: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina …show more content…
The English laws of navigation did not prevent the development of the colony because they were not applied. But when the colonial trade began to compete with the metropolitan trade frictions arose that led to the emancipation of the thirteen colonies.
The growth of colonial trade did England change policy. A cyclical data contributed to the change: The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) between England and France. Winner, Britain took possession of much of the French colonial empire, especially lands west of the thirteen American colonies. The English Parliament decided that the settlers should pay part of the costs of the war. The aim was to increase the fees and the rights of the Crown in America. The ability to increase their territory appealed to settlers who readily prepared to explore and seize new lands, but to his great surprise, the London government, fearing the outbreak of war with the Indian nations, determined that no new exploration or colonization of territories could be made without the signing of treaties with the